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FIN 461 Case – Beyond Meat (BYND) Due Date: 3/22/23 Answer the following questions regarding Beyond Meat’s IPO (5/2/19) and SEO. You can do internet searches and/or refer to BYNDs preliminary Form S-1 Registration Statement. 1.) At the time of the IPO, what were the top three (% of company owned) sources of private equity (venture capital)? Show percentage ownership and amount paid. a. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 15.90%, $7,751,463 b. Obvious Ventures, 9.16%, $4,462,542 c. DNS-BYMT, LLC, 9.01%, $4,390,084 2.) Who is the investment banker(s) for the IPO? a. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC 3.) How many shares were sold the day of the IPO and what percent of the company was sold in the IPO (not including underwriter options)? a. 8,750,000 shares, 15.3% of the company 4.) What was the IPO price per share, what was the first trading price, and what was the closing price on 5/2/2019? a. IPO price: $25.00. Closing price on 5/2/2019: $65.75 5.) How much money did BYND raise in its IPO (not including underwriter options)? a. 8,750,000 * $25 = $219 million 6.) Underwriters had a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,312,500 additional shares at the IPO price. How much money did this raise for BYND? a. 1,312,500 * $25 = $32.8 million 7.) How long is the lockup provision for initial shareholders? a. 180 days (from May 1, 2019 to October 29, 2019) 8.) In August 2019 BYND did a secondary offering (follow-on offering) of 3.25 million shares. Where did the 3.25 million shares come from? What price did the offering happened at? Approximately how much money did BYND raise in this offering? a. 3 million coming from investors and 250,000 from the company. b. Secondary stock offering at $160.00 c. 3,250,000 * $160 = $520 million
9.) If you bought shares at the end of day price on IPO day (5/2/19) what has been your total return to date? If you bought shares in August 2019 in the follow on offering what has been your total return to date? a. Closing price on 5/2/2019: $65.75, closing price on 3/21/2023: $15.58, total return to date = ($15.58 - $65.75) / $65.75 = -76.30% b. Follow-on offering price on 8/1/2019: $160.00, total return to date = ($15.58 - $160.00) / $160.00 = -90.26% 10.) Assume DNS Capital still owns all its shares (it probably doesn’t). What is their percent return to date? a. In series EFGH disclosed, DNS Capital purchased 1,253,329 shares with a weighted average price of $6.6291. So, their percent return to date = ($15.58 - $6.6291) / $6.6291 = 135.03%.
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